Proceedings of the meeting of the society of british neurological surgeons at Liverpool, 26?28 October 1983

Abstract

The authors had supplemented the customary treatment by laminectomy in metastatic spinal compression, with the use of immobilization through posteriorally placed rods. They considered that this enabled more rapid mobilization and had also applied the treatment to benign spinal lesions. They had used the technique in twenty cases of metastatic carcinoma, three cases of primary malignancy to the spine and two benign spinal lesions.